The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-04-02
CATHOLIC NEWS.
Church Notes

New churches are to be erected in
Gilbertsville and La Porte, Iowa.
The Holy Father has addressed an
important brief to the Benedictines.
The German Catholics of Ottawa
Waukesha County, Wis, are building a
new church.
Several journals have said that the
health of the Pope is precarious. This
is untrue. The Holy Father IS entirely
we'll.
The German congregation Of St.
Francis Xavier, Black Rock, Buffalo
N. Y, are preparing to build a new
$4,000 church.
The congregation of St. John the
Evangelist's Church, Delphos, o., in
tend to build fine new school building
this spring.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore gavt
$1,584.44 to the collection for the In
dams and negroes, taken up through
out the United States on the first Sum
day in Lent.
The organization of the two new par
ishes in Kansas City recently makes
the sixth since the Bishops arrival
there in 1880, besides the erection of
the Cathedral.
Sister Agnes, formerly inspectress of
the schools OF Albany, N. Y, has sue.
ceeded Sister Genevieve, who has been
summoned to St. Louis as superioress
of St. Joseph's convent, ON Elm street.
The ladies of the Tabernacle Society,
of Washington, D. c., sent last week to
Archbishop Seghers for the Alaska mir
sion, ST. 900 worth OF vestments, altar
furniture and linen, rosaries, pictures,
etc.
Monsignor Bernard j. McManus, rec
tor of st. Johns Church, Baltimore.
Nd, received on March Is, from Rome,
the Pontifcal brief appointing HIM a
prelate of the household of Pope Leo
XIII.
The new school to be attached to st
Joseph's Church. Washington, DC, will
be thee stories high. built of brick, with
stone trimmings. 1t will cost $l1 800
The Sisters of Notre Dame will be the
teachers.
A new church will be built in the par
ish of Notre Dame, Chicago, ILL.,, which
will seat 1000 people. The basement
chapel will be ready for use by June l.
The total cost of the church will be
about $4,000.
The Rt. Rev. P. Bourgade, Vicar
Apostolic of Arizona, devotes his Len
ten Pastoral to impressing on the faith
full under his charge the necessity OF
providing for their children a sound
Christian education.
The Rev. j. B. Nolin, S. j., has or
ganized branch of the Montreal COL
onization Society in St. Anne's Church
and schools, Montreal. 1t is expected
that all Irish settlement will soon be
formed in the Ottawa Valley, Ottawa
county.
Sixteen colored children, ranging
from seventeen to fifteen years, were re
Gently baptized by the Very Rev. Deal
Wagner, at the Catholic colored mis-.
sion OF Windsor, Ont, Canada. The
The Sisters of the Holy Name have
charge of the school.
A new parish has been made in the
new ward of Brooklyn, N. Y.,-the
26th-and Father Hugh Hand, for
twelve years assistant at the Church OF
the Visitation, and of late curate in
Holy Cross Church, Flatbush, L. l., has
been appointed by Bishop Loughlin as
the first rector.
A parochial school is to be erected IL
st. Bridget's parish, San Francisco.
Cal. It will be frame building and
will accommodate 600 children. Boys
up to the age of IL will be received, ant
girls of any age. Tue Sisters of Char
ity of the Blessed Virgin will have
charge of it.
The Rev. DR.. Chapelle celebrated, on
March IL, a High Mass of Requiem fol-
the repose of the soul of Mother Angela,
late Superior of the Sisterhood of tbe
Holy Cross, in his church, St. Mat
thew's, Washington, D. G. All the re.
ligious of that Order in Washington,
with the pupils under their charge,
were present.
There are now 900 children attending
St. Monica's parochial schools, New
York, but room is needed for at least
$40 more. The rector, the Rev. James
]. Dougherty, has secured size for the
required addition and is out in an ad-
dress to his people for the starting of a
building fund. Thirty thousand dollars
is the estimated cost.
The will of the late Vicar-Gencral of
the diocese of Wilmington, Del, the
Rev. Matthew A. McGrane. beuut athes